Orbiscom Tackles Concerns
About E-Commerce Security

Orbiscom (www.orbiscom.com ), a hot New York technology start-up founded in Dublin, owes its start to stormy seas. But its business strategy is to calm consumers' concerns about e-commerce security.

Waiting out a storm on a sailboat off Ireland's west coast in August 1997, brothers-in-law Ian Flitcroft and Graham O'Donnell debated the obstacles to Internet shopping. "We agreed that we didn't shop online because it's just not...